They are also on the side of a Nationalist politician, and yet they fail to state to their die-hards that the only reason for this is because he is the magistrate’s bedmate.

I take it that was a rhetorical question.

Do you share a surname?

‘qabduha minn sieqa’

That’s their usual way.

Like your grammar ans spelling.

“would be wise to take Hugh Harding’s advice”

Well said, but unfortunately it’s a bit late for that in at least one case, isn’t it?

And it’s by choice, not by accident. It makes you wonder why they’re getting all virginal now – and I don’t just mean the smutty stars of the show themselves. There are all those crusaders for the truth – columnists, reporters and the papers they write for – who are reaching for the smelling salts and claiming they only know what was written because ‘someone sent it to me’ and that they are variously shocked, disgusted or moved to tears.

Moved to tears, that is, that someone bothered to say out loud what lots of people knew already anyway, and not the disgraceful implications of that smutty behaviour.

Sometimes I wonder if issues in Malta are only created if only ‘certain’ people are involved.

Quo Vadis Malta

Right, everybody is saying “Madonna, kif avvilita” and never “jahasra, kemm gidbet fuqha”. That should suffice, shouldn’t it?